tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60530232009-10-13T04:46:53.634-05:00Informed observations on the news. Right of Center. Mostly rational... with a touch of semi-hysterical.Partisanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14832461794226677081partisan@gmail.comBlogger350125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6053023.post-1257813114238067632009-07-14T13:12:00.002-05:002009-07-14T13:22:49.608-05:00

Elections have consequences.One of the very serious consequences is that the President - possibly one that you never agree with ideologically - gets to select Supreme Court nominees. If you want SCOTUS justices that vote the way you would like them too, then get your candidate elected President. It's as simple as that.Obama won. He has selected Judge Sonia Sotamayor for the first vacancy.I'm a

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The media's leftist double-standard in the coverage of Dr. Tiller's murder and in the non-coverage of the Marine recruiter's murder is blatant, but not surprising.Dr. George Tiller was murdered by a single shooter as he attended church Sunday in Kansas. Dr. Tiller is the most notorious abortionist in the country. He performs late-term abortions for cash, some 60,000 viable babies terminated in

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I was looking for a fight as I was flipping around on the channels tonight. I was thinking UFC, and I was headed for Spike TV. But I found a fight on C-Span that was better.The Congress critters had a table full of witnesses discussing the disolution of dealerships by GM and Chrysler as they go through bailouts and bankruptcy. The CEOs who had announced the closure of dealerships were at the

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Unlike most of the mainstream media, I am not swooning about President Obama's choices for his cabinet. Several seem to me to be remarkably poor choices.Some examples:- Timothy Geithner: a Treasury Secretary who is a tax cheat- Hillary Clinton: a Secretary of State who is indebted to many of the world leaders that she will try to influence, via cash deposits in the Clinton Library Foundation-

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There is anger in the land. Oh, yes.And right now it is directed at the $1 Billion "Porkulus" bill, masquerading as a stimulus bill. Pelosi crafted it. President Obama owns it. And the majority of Americans are angry about it.Make no mistake, Americans know when they are being lied to and are being taken advantage of - and we don't like it.It's like the old story of having your car break down on

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As expected, Barack Obama began his presidency last week with a flurry of Executive Orders, most to reverse Bush policies. Two notable ones:1. E.O.'s to ratchet back the government's aggressive policies against terrorism since 9/11. An order to close the detainee detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Prohibiting aggressive interrogation techniques by the CIA, requiring the use of the Army Field

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So, I'm sitting in the cafeteria at work having lunch. The TV overhead is tuned to Headline News and, inevitably, Barack Obama.Our new President is, on his first day in office, signing Executive Orders to frame out his rules of the road for his Executive Branch. First up: ethics reform. He's bringing change to ethics and transparency, he's saying, so that America can trust it's government

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Have you ever known a teenager, or been one, who not only believed that all of the adults who came before him were irrelevant and stupid and who not only believed that they knew everything but that they invented everything? That they were the first person in the world to ever have experiences?That's the general feeling that I came away from yesterday's inauguration with. President Obama is one of

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In the last few minutes before President Obama takes the oath of office as the 44th president, let me just say:Thank you, President George W. Bush, for keeping our country and my family safe for the last seven years. No one expected, after the horror of 9-11, that we would not be attacked again on U.S. soil during your presidency. No one. And it was not an accident. You were, by necessity, the

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Which Democrat is behaving most egregiously in the last two months:-Rod Blagojevich – Illinois Governor. Caught by U.S. Attorney in a pay-for-play bid to sell the U.S. Senate seat vacated by PEBO. (President Elect Barack Obama).-U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald. Announced that Obama is not implicated in the Blago scandal – even though he’s been taking testimony for years from Tony Rezko, who was

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Do you need any further evidence that journalism is dead in 2008 - totally in the tank for Obama and not doing their jobs - than the coverage today of the Obama Transition Team's meager 5 page report on Obama's dealings with Rod Blagojevich?Have we fallen into a strange parallel universe? On what planet do politicians get to investigate and clear themselves?When Obama has his own lawyer Greg

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Those of you not from Illinois are not prepared for the fallout of today's bombshell news of the FBI arrest of the Govenor of Illinois - Rod Blagojevich.But I am from Illinois, and I know how deep this is going to go. Today is just the tip of the iceberg. Lots of people are going down, including - I predict (and you heard it here first) the highest profile product of Crook County Illinois -

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As I've said, I've seen this movie before. And I don't want to sit through it again, so I'm tuning out as best I can.The eight years of the Clinton Administration were tough on me, mentally. (As, apparently, the eight years of the Bush Administration were on lefties). I got myself twisted in knots learning all about their misdeeds and trying to convince other people that they were doing bad

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I read today that President-Elect is bent on closing Gitmo when he takes office. Hmmmm. Is that wise?Let me digress a moment.Have you ever watched an old favorite movie and caught something that you had missed before?I had that experience this week. "Saving Private Ryan" - one of my favorites. If you can watch that movie and not get choked up when Tom Hanks - the hero Capt. Miller - is dying on

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It's fairly easy, if you've been watching his campaign for the last two years, to predict President Obama's action once he takes office.Those pundits who are all offering up their insights that Obama will have to "govern from the center" are fooling themselves. He will pay back the Democrat interests groups right away with a flood of Executive Orders, as all presidents do. The point this time is

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Where's John McCain?It's been more than a week since Govenor Sarah Palin, his chosen running mate, came under withering and remorseless fire - from his very own campaign staffers. Anonymous cowardly fire.My expectation would have been that he would publicly defend her, and insist that his former staffers stop it instantly.Isn't he the guy with self-proclaimed righteousness? The guy who would name

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First, the thank yous:1. Thank you, President Bush. You made the hard choices and kept us safe for 7 years after the biggest terrorist attack on our country. You brought us out of the economic and psychological hit that our nation took on that day. You changed our stance from defense to offense in this war that was thrust on us, and took down many of our enemy and reduced the threat to our very

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It's clear to me: John McCain lost because of John McCain.He had a chance to win, amazingly. Many pundits of pointed out the strong Democrat headwind this year. He should have been 20 points down. Yet Obama had so many weaknesses that McCain was competitive. He could have won, but didn't. Here's why:1. "Me too"-ism.I like Ann Coulter's theory that any time you give voters a choice between a

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First, let me just say that the trashing of Govenor Sarah Palin in the aftermath of the election by insiders of the McCain campaign is absolutely disgraceful. She was a net lift to the ticket, without doubt. McCain would have lost by a much bigger margin without her. She energized millions like me.Second, let me ask - where is John McCain defending her? It's Friday already and not a peep out of

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I guess it's becoming our national habit to trade nightmares every eight years.The Clinton years were a nightmare for me. Eight years of saying "Are you kidding me?" and "Can you not see how bad this guy is?". Apparently eight years of George W. Bush was a similar nightmare for some of you.Now we're switching again, and I'm headed for a long eight years of deep depression.Let me just say that

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I'm predicting a narrow McCain victory for tomorrow.I don't think McCain has run a good campaign. I think he completely wasted Sarah Palin's skills by keeping her off of the Sunday shows. McCain doesn't particularly deserve to win.The bottom line though: I just can't believe that America would elect a socialist radical like Obama for President. I just can't believe that it can happen.WAKE UP

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I was listening to WLS radio out of Chicago tonight on my drive home from work.They were commenting on the sheerly incredible logistics of the giant Obama election party in Grant Park in downtown Chicago. At least one million people headed downtown for a party. 200 port-a-potties. Their advice?:"If you live in Chicago, begin panicing now!"If McCain pulls out an upset tomorrow, it's going to get

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I hereby apologize to Sen. Obama.I was saying a lot last week that I didn't believe that Senator Obama's trip to Hawaii was for the stated purpose of visiting a sick and dying grandmother. I believed that it was to talk with Hawii officials to have them lock up his fraudulent birth certificate until after the election at least.His grandmother died today.I was wrong.He went for both reasons.My

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I was doing some browsing at the local gun and military surplus store this week.This place is an impressively masculine place, if you haven't been to one. Wall to wall machismo.They have guns - hundreds of them. Pick your projectile dispenser: handguns, rifles of every imaginable caliber, shotguns for hunting or home defense, assault rifles of various national origin.They have knives - cases of

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Is there a liberal bias in the media?If you have to ask that question in 2008, you are really not paying attention. Really. Because if you are paying attention, the degree that the media is either completely in the tank for one candidate (Yes, "the one"), or incompetent, or both is nauseatingly blatant.If you only read the mainstream sources of media, then you probably have a hard time picking up

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